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3 - 4 years understanding the world

Your preschooler has an extremely rich interior life and spends a lot of his waking time in his imagination. Real and imagined experiences are easily interchanged and so lying and wishful thinking can become easily mixed up.

Developmental milestones include:

Understanding that his mind is his own; that what he thinks are his own thoughts and that no-one knows what he's thinking unless he tells them.

Beginning to understand concepts such as about height and size, but is easily confused.

Showing some understanding of time - he understands that day follows night.

Understanding the meaning of big and little, short and tall.

Knowing who's a boy and who's a girl.

Knowing how old he is.

Beginning to be able to draw a person on paper - although you may not be able to recognise it as a person.